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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 460
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2011, 6:44 PM EDT for 29 counties in Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2011, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2011, 11:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Ashland County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Ohio County, WV
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Huron, Richland | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Stark, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 13 more | 95 min |
| Jun 10, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 45 more | 87 min |
| Jun 10, 5:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 92 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.